B2s by Microsoft Azure
Specifications and performance for Microsoft Azure - B2s
Instance Type: Bs
This plan belongs to the Microsoft Azure Bs server line (General purpose compute).
Instance Type Description
Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need to burst to significantly higher CPU performance when the demand rises. These workloads don’t require the use of the full CPU all the time, but occasionally will need to burst to finish some tasks more quickly. Many applications such as development and test servers, low traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, build servers, and code repositories fit into this model.
Very small temporary storage is included.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | Between $15.18 and $30.39 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | Between 2.0 and 4.0GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | MIX |
| Shared CPU | yes |
| Storage included | yes |
See also all Microsoft Azure instance types.
"B2s" Plan Specifications
| Provider | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-b-series-our-new-burstable-vm-size/ |
| Price per month |
$30.37
Warning: storage costs are not included in this price.
Warning: network bandwidth costs are not included in this price.
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| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
Discount Discounted monthly price: $17.75 Minimum commitment for discount: 1 year |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Disk GB | 8 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 4 |
| Virtualization | Hyper-V |
| Data Transfer GB | 100 |
| Burstable CPU | Per core CPU allocation: 40% |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst. The grades below are those of the most recent trial run for this plan.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 41
Performance Test Results
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for Microsoft Azure - B2s. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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| Review | Review | Review | Review |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
Performance trials run on the B2s plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the B2s plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13 2021 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8171M CPU @ 2.60GHz | us-east | D |